Lucia Ciciolla is a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on child psychology. Suniya Luthar is Foundation Professor of Psychology at the Arizona State University, and Professor Emerita at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York. The joys of motherhood quite literally wax and wane over time. If you had to guess, you
Read moreBy Olivia Willis for Ladies, We Need To Talk, posted 27 May 2018. It’s remarkably common, and yet barely spoken about. Up to one in four pregnancies in Australia end in miscarriage. But an unwritten social rule that says we should keep pregnancy news quiet (at least for the first 12 weeks) means that many
Read moreThis information sheet (from the Australian Psychological Society) provides advice for parents around how to make separation less stressful for all concerned, especially children. In general, the things that help children’s wellbeing following separation are the same things that work in any family: good quality parenting, supportive relationships with parents, low conflict between the child’s
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing By Dr Jocelyn Lowinger, 29 Jul 2016. Meal times can be a source of frustration and conflict in many families. In a scenario that is familiar to many parents, you go out of your way to provide healthy meals and encourage your kids to eat their leafy greens. But all they
Read moreABC Radio Sydney, by Linda Mottram and Matthew Bevan 11 May 2015. How do you talk to the grieving parent of a dead child? There is a “conspiracy of silence” when children die in our society, says a visiting bereavement expert. And we no longer have the time or the understanding of death that enables
Read moreDavid Dodwell, Sunday, 27 May, 2018. It is not just at Yale, in Singapore or in Hong Kong, that Tiger Mums reign, and fortunes are spent on often-spurious strategies to super-charge your baby towards Harvard or Oxford or Fudan. Nor is it surprising that marketing products to anxious and besotted parents begins the moment sperm
Read moreBy Virginia Small, 13 May 2016, 9:34am More than 30,000 Australian children may now be severely obese, a national study into childhood health has found. Researchers said their findings suggested they had underestimated the problem, and its extent may be even greater than figures show. “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesity
Read moreABC Radio Sydney, by Amanda Hoh, 12 Jul 2017. As Lucas Cheang looks through photos in his scrapbook, he points to one of his mother Tina lying in bed and says simply: “This is when mummy died.” It’s a heartbreaking sentence to hear from a six-year-old. When Tina was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in
Read moreThe Conversation, by Gemma Hamilton, Anastasia Powell and Naomi Pfitzner, 30 Jul 2018. So far today police in Australia would have dealt with on average 211 domestic violence matters It’s only a little over halfway through the year and already 37 Australian women have been killed by violence. On average, at least one Australian
Read moreBy Cate Grant, updated 26 Apr 2018 Carleon Russell was three months pregnant with her second baby when her nine-month-old daughter Verity died. “I wanted to die, when I discovered my baby dead. I just tried to stop breathing and stop existing,” she said. “She was a healthy, beautiful little girl, who strangled in her
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